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Comment Re:its just more selective than allowing every LEA (Score 1) 231

by JKast on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @02:25PM (#51375207) Attached to: Apple Court Testimony Reveals Why It Refuses To Unlock iPhones For Police

Or the police will break out the $5 wrenches and rubber hoses, which runs into its own set of problems.

They should have a Obligatory xkcd upmod...

Comment active people have 30% lower risk of death? (Score 1) 200

by JKast on Thursday February 05, 2015 @02:34PM (#48991165) Attached to: Too Much Exercise May Not Be Better Than a Sedentary Lifestyle

From TFA "Although previous research has found that physically active people have at least a 30% lower risk of death compared with inactive people, the ideal amount of exercise remains somewhat uncertain. In this study, strenuous joggers — (omitted)— had a mortality rate that is not statistically different from that of the sedentary group."

No. Everyone will die... Inactive people may just die sooner.

Comment Re:Comcast Business Class (Score 1) 291

by JKast on Thursday December 11, 2014 @02:04PM (#48574235) Attached to: Comcast Sued For Turning Home Wi-Fi Routers Into Public Hotspots

The other two are already dead....

Comment Re:Why at a place of learning? (Score 1) 1007

by JKast on Tuesday October 28, 2014 @12:36PM (#48251841) Attached to: Creationism Conference at Michigan State University Stirs Unease

D.C

Comment Secretaries? (Score 1) 786

by JKast on Wednesday October 22, 2014 @12:40PM (#48204593) Attached to: NPR: '80s Ads Are Responsible For the Lack of Women Coders

Who's to blame for the lack of men being secretaries? A lot of these discussions are pointless. People will do what they want to do. If that means breaking social norms, be my guest. Good for you.

Comment Re:That's not the reason you're being ignored. (Score 1) 406

by JKast on Wednesday October 15, 2014 @12:49PM (#48151329) Attached to: Flight Attendants Want Stricter Gadget Rules Reinstated

To be fair, he did say "yadda yadda yadda".

If I had any mod points left, I'd vote this post up....

DX11 Tested Against DX9 With Dirt 2 Demo 201

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 03, 2009 @02:20AM from the shadows-with-shadows dept.

MojoKid writes "The PC demo for Codemasters' upcoming DirectX 11 racing title, Dirt 2, has just hit the web and is available for download. Dirt 2 is a highly-anticipated racing sim that also happens to feature leading-edge graphic effects. In addition to a DirectX 9 code path, Dirt 2 also utilizes a number of DirectX 11 features, like hardware-tessellated dynamic water, an animated crowd and dynamic cloth effects, in addition to DirectCompute 11-accelerated high-definition ambient occlusion (HADO), full floating-point high dynamic range (HDR) lighting, and full-screen resolution post processing. Performance-wise, DX11 didn't take its toll as much as you'd expect this early on in its adoption cycle." Bit-tech also took a look at the graphical differences, arriving at this conclusion: "You'd need a seriously keen eye and brown paper envelope full of cash from one of the creators of Dirt 2 to notice any real difference between textures in the two versions of DirectX."

Mafia Wars CEO Brags About Scamming Users 251

Posted by Soulskill on Thursday November 12, 2009 @05:13AM from the all-about-the-benjamins dept.

jamie writes with a follow-up to our recent discussion of social gaming scams: "Mark Pincus, CEO of the company that brought us Mafia Wars, says: 'I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues right away. I mean, we gave our users poker chips if they downloaded this Zwinky toolbar, which was like, I don't know... I downloaded it once and couldn't get rid of it.'" TechCrunch also ran a interesting tell-all from the CEO of a company specializing in Facebook advertisements, who provided some details on similarly shady operations at the popular social networking site.

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